Remove Agile Remove Customer Development Remove Equity
article thumbnail

10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. And you’ll learn about how to build a minimal viable product to get feedback early and often from customers.

Startup 335
article thumbnail

Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. carry on reading.

Cofounder 230
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

Oakland 315
article thumbnail

Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

article thumbnail

Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

customer development. agile engineering. Some general customer development slides click here. Called “ How to Build a Startup: The Lean LaunchPad ,” it walks you through the Business Model Canvas and an overview of the customer development process. Berkeley presentations, lectures and syllabus here.

article thumbnail

The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon.

Lean 60
article thumbnail

300 Teams in Two Years

Steve Blank

The program pays scientists $50,000 to attend the program and takes no equity. It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence, Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator.

Lean 270